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How Much Violence Does Football Hooliganism Cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2022

explain sports-related violence in the United States, but can be accommodated by social identity explanations of football …

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …

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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

Lowe, Matt - 2020

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...

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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also … vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are … with higher sports club membership rates in the wake of marginally promoted soccer teams. The populist momentum is however …

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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?

Garretsen, Harry - 2013

The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...

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COVID-19 Outbreak, Social Response, and Early Economic Effects : A Global VAR Analysis of Cross-Country Interdependencies

Milani, Fabio - 2020

This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...

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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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